Maine is on the New England grid, so they’re as screwed as the rest of us. Like the rest of us, their so-called leaders believe sending someone a few hundred dollars to pay a bill solves a problem they or their ideological ancestors created.
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As noted here,
The New England energy dearth has been an ongoing concern for years. As reliable energy is decommissioned from the grid, nothing reliable has been proposed to replace it. All while heating oil or gas infrastructure has been delayed, sidetracked, or blocked by environmentalist politicians and their green boots on the ground.
New Hampshire fast-tracked and rubber-stamped a heating assistance bill. You can get a check to help pay for rising heating oil, natural gas/propane, or residential electric bills if eligible. It does nothing to address why these prices have risen and, in some cases, doubled.
Maine tripped over itself to do something similar. Governor Mills’ winter heating assistance plan spends a lot of money because policymakers had their heads up the ass of the green lobby for two decades, and winter has come calling. To be fair some had their heads up their own ass, but the result is similar. It is a dollar-store band-aid that’s going to fall off, but they are pretending this gets them over some hump.
Kirsten Figueroa, the governor’s Commissioner of the Department Appropriations and Financial Affairs, reviewed the provisions, funding sources, and reasons for the $474 million heating aid plan.
More than half of the funds would come from the projected $283 million revenue surplus for the coming year.
Figueroa told the committee, “This bill takes these one-time funding sources to address a hopefully one-time emergency issue to make sure main people have the financial resources to keep them safe, secure, warm and housed this winter.”
Maybe Kirsten thinks Global warming will arrive in time to save them all next fall, but that’s just another lie, like the idea that this is a one-time emergency. Rising fuel and electricity prices are the deliberate result of mostly progressive policy decisions. This is what you wanted.
There is no solution, fake-green or otherwise, that will arise before next winter to pull your fair-trade soy-boy bacon out of this fire (assuming there’s anything with which to start one).
Related: Northeast ‘Energy Policy’ – How About Freezing to Death My Pretties….
And make note of the “projected” 283 million revenue surplus. Democrats are running Maine and were before the midterms. Rule one is to overestimate revenues so those numbers will pay for the planned spending. When the estimates come up short, you deflect the blame to the vagaries of the economy and then make sure everyone knows which vulnerable classes will be harmed if you object to new taxes or hikes in old ones.
The class to which they refer is actually themselves, lobbyists, unions, and grant-grubbing bottom-feeders, but that’s the quiet part no one says out loud. Just keep overestimating so you can raise taxes. It’s how we got New Jersey, New York, California, Massachusetts, etcetera.
Unaffordable budgets, like unaffordable electric rates, all have the same endgame. More government. If a few Mainers need to freeze to death to get there from here, well, they’re sorry the check wasn’t enough. Maybe you should have asked for small bills so you could burn those instead.
